polychaete

Questions about polychaete

What is another word for polychaete?

It depends which polychaete you mean. In the sense “chiefly marine annelids possessing both sexes and having paired appendages (parapodia) bearing bristles”, the synonyms are polychete, polychaete worm, polychete worm. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of polychaete?

WordNet records no antonym for polychaete. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for polychaete come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of polychaete

• Full entry for polychaeteAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for polychaeteWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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